Black Men

While visiting Stephen Colbert and The Late Show this week, rapper, actor and overall renaissance man Common shared that Michelle Obama is helping him find love.

Dr. Henry Louis Gates has a new documentary out now on PBS called, Reconstruction: America After The Civil War. It discusses everything that he says “they did not want us to know.” He calls the period between the end of the Civil War and Reconstruction, “the period of the greatest freedom of Black people in the […]

African-American men have the highest risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer as well as dying from it compared to any other ethnic group in the U.S. This trend has remained unchanged for over four decades. Although research has focused on identifying the biological differences that may lead to this difference, there’s growing evidence that distinct racial and […]

Marc Peeples claims that in 2017 and early 2018, the trio fabricated harmful stories about him for working on an urban garden close to where they lived.

Voting rights activist and Deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson died at the hands of an Alabama State Trooper on February 26, 1965, which inspired the first of the SCLC marches in Selma. It would take 42 years before his family saw justice. Jackson was born December 16, 1938 in Marion, Ala. He served as the deacon […]

Michael D. Smith is rallying the faithful and following in the footsteps of his mentor: President Barack Obama. As Executive Director of the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, Smith moves from meeting to meeting with an easy smile, a tight handshake and a purpose. He is the engine that drives MBK. Today, Smith is building on […]

Bravo network is reportedly ready to exploit former model/famed restaurateur B. Smith as the network is rumored to have greenlit a reality show that will follow Smith, her husband Dan Gasby and his girlfriend Alex Lerner. MTO reported that former “Real Housewives of Atlanta” producer Carlos King has signed a production deal with Dan and Alex for a reality TV show about their […]

JoJo Smith worked over six decades as one of entertainment’s top dance instructors and was known as “the choreographer to the stars.” The dance legend passed away last week. Smith was born July 20, 1938 in New York City to dancer parents Anna Margaret Grayson, and Joseph Benjamin Smith, and was raised in the Bronx. […]

Racial discrimination in the United States is one the rise. From Walter Scott to Trayvon Martin, from Charlottesville to Ferguson, there has been one incident after another due to racial issues in the US. So much so that Americans who believe racism is a huge problem have doubled in numbers over the past 10 years. […]

The Phi Beta Sigma, Inc. was founded on the campus of Howard University on January 9, 1914 by three students: the Honorable A. Langston Taylor, the Honorable Leonard F. More, and the Honorable Charles I. Brown. The trio was inspired to create the organization with the premise of embodying brotherhood, scholarship, and service. As the […]

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Detectives have opened an investigation into a second death in less than two years at the West Hollywood home of a Democratic donor, the Los Angeles County sheriff’s department said Tuesday. A lawyer for Ed Buck, who has donated tens of thousands of dollars to California candidates and is well […]

HOUSTON (AP) — Two men suspected in a drive-by shooting that killed a 7-year-old black Houston girl and that was initially investigated as a possible hate crime mistakenly thought they were attacking people whom they had fought with at a club hours earlier, a prosecutor said Monday. One of the men, Eric Black Jr., appeared […]